I like this response a lot actually. However I believe the answer lies in a republic style government with a few strong leaders who can take control during event of emergency.

I also feel like the whole 3 branch system would need an overhaul where we can get teams of experts pertaining to their category

Perhaps I'm wrong though. I don't believe in a working communism- however I do strongly believe in a strong planned economy. Mathematically speaking we can do the math needed to best provide everyone with the resources they need while still allowing for people to rise in ranks.

One of my big upsets with capitalism is our desire to let small businesses be on the same playing field as large. Without regulations and rules under government control big businesses could sell goods for way cheaper- and with them being government controlled there would be no incentive to abuse the monopoly for gains.

I get where you are coming from but I feel the need to correct this because it is a mistake far too many people including firaxis make-- communism is an economic ideology comparable to capitalism. Not a government type. You can have a democratic government with a government run economy. Now wth this said you can still have capitalism as one of your policies in communism which is just stupid.

Lack of expansion into adjacency bonuses (feels like they were only testing the waters, German hansa is a perfect example of what they need more of)

Ai seems to settle even less than in V but it actually is needed in Vi

Ai doesn't use planes

Ai seems far too quick to be upset (Congo denouncing the turn you found religion)

Terrible balance: the selling units for 100s of gold even near death, chopping of woods everywhere for same value)
---- they hot fixed these 2 but not being able to get money at all isn't complete (should scale based on health, only in territory)
--- woods should scale based on how far from city tiles
----horse units are WAY WAY WAY too powerful
---tech tree is fully researched in like 1600s even without making campuses

Hitler won by the popular vote. In the first democracy of Athens they decided to execute execute the philosopher (Socrates?) for teaching their children deductive reasoning.

"The greatest argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter."

The argument still stands. Over 50% of the people being able to be made sheep by a man, yelling very loud emotionally fronted statements and providing a scape goat, is not a new concept. It's how every dictator (ones that rose to power initially- not the ones following a previous dictator) were brought to power.

I personally believe trump is going to be great for this country- however arguing the merit of his voters with the fact that he won is ridiculous. Especially in this election when his running platform was to gather up as much support from the radical idiots and then move on to try and sway the other 10% of rational thinkers he needs.

His strategy was brilliant in the fact that now these people will no longer blindly hate programs and ideas that they did before because their mighty fuehrer placed them- but it doesn't make the argument that the vast majority of trump voters were people who did not care for facts or science or ethical/logical decisions. They were people who would blindly follow the man with the republican tag and speaking out against all the races they despise.